Write-Ups on Shaun Shue

How-to: Appear in AI generated results / answers / overviews

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

How do I show up in AI generated results / answers / overviews?

Whether you’re a digital marketer, launching a product, or want to be seen as an authoritative voice, let me lay out what I did.

How-to: Open source your product and get revenue

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a fan of open source for all the reasons open source exists. However, I’ve learned from having locally popular open source projects that you can only ask so much of people working for free. Here’s how to get revenue from your open source project so you can pay people, and maybe just maybe, pay yourself to work on it.

12 Things to do with an expired / end of life Chromebox or Chromebook

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

What to do with an expired / end of life Chromebox or Chromebook?

Don’t throw it out

Owing to when Chromebooks and Chromeboxes really caught on, there are a lot of them reaching their Auto-Update Expiration dates, and for security reasons, no Internet connected device should be used if it stops receiving updates. But these machines don’t need to become E-waste, now that most can have a “regular” OS installed on them. Plus, due to their relatively small size and low power draw (compared to most computers), there are unique uses for them as far as repurposing old computers goes. Here are 12:

JAM Stack vs. Wordpress

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I ran my site on a shared server running WordPress for the longest time, and drawn by the promise of faster, more secure sites that cost less to host in multiple locations, I migrated to JAM stack in March of 2019. Anyone considering a similar move, this is my running take.

How-to: Solve Queens on LinkedIn

Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

How do I solve Queens on LinkedIn?

I’m glad you asked. I can usually solve the hardest ones in a minute or two. Here’s what I do.

(I do play with Auto-place Xs. It’s a huge time saver.)

Yay, Google did it: How they drastically reduced the E-waste of their Chromebooks

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Original title: ~~“How Google could (and should) drastically reduce the E-waste of their Chromebooks”~~

My Chromebook

February 7th, 2017, I purchased my Chromebook, looking to get a computer that could handle all day email and Google docs while unplugged in a coffee shop. I worked that 3rd gen Lenovo ThinkPad 11e hard, and it just took it. I loved it.

Product Basics: Develop Product Sense

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Product sense is: The ability to understand what people want and to build products that meet those needs.

Developing product sense is essential for product managers. Here is what I’ve learned about it, from what I’ve read and the work I’ve done.

Yishan Wong on Content moderation

Sun, 30 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong wrote about Content Moderation on his Twitter. It is a subject I have great interest in, and given the current uncertainty around content persistence on Twitter, I de-microblogged it best I could, and am posting it here in entirety for others. Original link here.

Product Basics: Use the RICE model to determine what to develop and when

Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

At any moment, there are a million things to do, and single digit resources with which to do them. Deciding what your time is best spent doing is important in getting the most bang for your buck, but how do you decide what that is? I’ve started using the RICE method as one tool in the toolbox, which takes ‘Business Value’ and ’T-shirt sizing’ to the next level.

How-to: Use PID for cooking

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

PID is a great and versatile control mechanism, but with limitations in cooking applications due to:

Certain foods being sensitive to fluctuating temperatures, and
Inconsistencies of control variable/heat output relationships in some heating methods.

Here are useful applications and adaptations to PID, should you need temperature control in your cooking project.

How-to: Flash lights and NOT trigger seizures

Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I read about Liana Ruppert having a seizure, triggered while playing Cyberpunk 2077 for review. CD Projekt Red was quick to add a warning and a fix, but there are good practices to minimize risk in the design phase. There wasn’t a clear guide when I needed one for the SPRK project, so I’m making this.

How-to: Get a technical person to work on your idea for equity

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I’m approached fairly regularly for equity gigs (though less often since I put this up), and I want to help anyone approaching technical people, wanting them to work for equity. Fundamentally, you need to address and do these things:

Citizen Science: What would make facemasks better?

Wed, 01 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Our PPE response at Crash Space started in March of 2020 with an open source face mask modified by USC Keck, which we’ve delivered to them in the thousands for emergency clinical use. It used a pulled apart HEPA filter—comparable to N95 by specification (ref: 1). The breathing port was relatively small, and though some volunteers wore them up to four hours, it was unpleasant. Safe, but unpleasant.

Product Basics: Test product demand before spending a lot of money on development

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The earlier you can tell whether your product idea has merit, the better. Knowing early means you can decide whether it’s worth the investment to proceed or if you should save your capital for something else. To this end, Physical and Digital prototyping have their place, but before going that far, here are things to consider first. In each, you are looking to identify and test a demand hypothesis using the format: If we [do something] for [persona], they will [respond in a certain way].

How-to: Prototype-to-Production with ATtiny0/1 series + Arduino libraries

Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a big fan of the ATtiny 0/1-series microcontroller. For less than the cost of a candy bar, it’s faster, has better control, communication and power management than any 8-bit MCUs that came before.

How-to Basics: Build a digital prototype

Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Prototypes are crucial for any product idea. It verifies whether the product solves the problem it was designed for before the final development costs. With a prototype in hand, you can get feedback from potential users/customers, and make adjustments or decide to scrap the product should it be necessary.

How-to Basics: Build a physical prototype

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Prototypes are crucial for any product idea. It verifies whether the product solves the problem it was designed for before the final tooling / development costs. With a prototype in hand, you can get feedback from potential users/customers, and make adjustments or decide to scrap the product should it be necessary.

Not Impossible Submission: STEAM education for all

Sat, 01 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Submission:

When the least expensive tinker kits are $40 and require a computer, lots of kids are left behind. We made one that’s less than $6.

STEM careers are in demand, well paying, and only going to grow. But asking who will get those careers and who will start those companies exposes a Dickensian divide in education between the haves and have-nots. Bill Gates was finishing his first program at 13; whereas one of my brightest, most enthusiastic programming students (who once mentioned she had to eat fast or her brothers ate everything) didn’t have access to a computer until 10th grade.

Basics: Community moderation

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Whether you’re promoting your brand, product or non-profit STEAM educational event aimed at inspiring children, you are going to have good, bad and ugly interactions with the Internet channels of your choosing. How you handle these reflects on you, and if you haven’t chosen a specific institutional voice (e.g. intentionally irreverent Wendy’s Twitter), here is the section I compiled for our marketing and communications guidelines in its entirety.

Being an EV early adopter / What the industry needs

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

“They’re quiet, clean, need minimal maintenance, and put full torque from a dead stop. When is every vehicle going to be electric?” — Me getting my 2011 Zero S, early 2013